PISA 2012 Results: What Students Know and Can Do ,Volume I, Revised edition, February 2014: Student Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Science:PDF available now. Print edition to come soon. Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibraryErroneous data in the first edition has been corrected.Librarians who received print copies should remove the old version from their collection and replace it with the new version, when it arrives. The old version has been replaced by the new version in the iLibrary.

Financial and Enterprise Affairs Call for Papers.We are looking for new and interesting thinking on how policy options in the areas of competition, corporate governance, capital markets and financial services, international investment and foreign bribery can have an impact on our well-being as defined by the OECD's Better Life Initiative. Call for papers

Higher Education Management and Policy, Volume 24 Issue 3 features articles on university governance in the MENA region, international student and institutional objectives, culture and post-secondar educational choices, the professionalisation of degree courses in France, the Erasmus programme, higher education in Tanzania, increasing higher education participation in Australia, and oversight of international branch campuses: Read and Share | Issue on OECD iLibrary

Forthcoming -OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Slovak Republic 2012: Book listing
-Financial Education for Youth: The Role of Schools: Book listing
-Lessons from PISA for Korea: Book listing

Banking reform: A New Year’s resolutionWhen G20 regulators met in Pittsburgh in September 2009–it had taken them a full year to react to the collapse of Lehman Brothers–they set out an ambitious financial reform agenda. As 2014 dawns, have those reforms made progress? Read more

More gloom on the horizonOptimism has proved to be another major victim of the economic crisis, according to How’s Life? Indeed, people’s long-term expectations about their subjective well-being fi ve years from now have deteriorated almost everywhere in the OECD area, according to How's Life 2013.
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Conflict management is at a low pointIn this post, Rosa Gosch interviews the team responsible for the latest edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index (BTI), launched in cooperation with Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. Read more

How accurate are OECD forecasts?If you’re a regular visitor to the blog, you’ll know we often report on the latest OECD economic forecasts. After reading these, you may have found yourself asking this question: Is this really what’s going to happen? You’re not alone. The OECD’s economists, too, have been asking themselves the same question, and today they offered some answers. In a “post-mortem” project, the OECD examined the accuracy of the economic forecasts it issued between 2007 and 2012, a period of seemingly endless economic turbulence. Read more

FATCA, fat cats and taxJohnny Caspar in the Coen brother’s Miller’s Crossing would have been pleased to hear that today the OECD is announcing a way to remedy the shocking lack of ethics in the increasingly globalised globe people do business on. Like Johnny, we’re concerned about the consequences when certain parties don’t play fair. Johnny’s way of levelling the playing field is to bury the scallywags underneath it, but this being the OECD, our proposal, developed with G20 countries at the G20’s request, concerns the international tax system and how to “inject greater trust and fairness” into it.
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